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Die Hard 2, a review by DJ Doena

Director: Renny Harlin

Bruce Willis    ...    Lt. John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia   ...    Holly McClane
William Atherton   ...    Richard Thornburg
William Sadler   ...    Col. Stuart
Reginald VelJohnson   ...    Sgt. Al Powell
Franco Nero   ...    Gen. Ramon Esperanza
John Amos   ...    Maj. Grant
Dennis Franz   ...    Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Fred Dalton Thompson   ...    Trudeau
Tom Bower   ...    Marvin

Synopsis: "The same shit happens to the same guy twice." Another Christmas and Holly is flying in to Washington D.C. where her husband is waiting for her. But a flight designated FM-1 is also scheduled to land - and this flight has an important "passenger": General Esperanza, a despot and drug lord and he has friends at the airport. And they have no intentions of getting the General be handed over to the justice system. What they didn't expect was the hero of the Nakatomi Tower.

My Opinion: I like this movie nearly as much as the first one. It hasn't as good a villain as the first one had, but it's still a great action movie with a cool story, an awesome body count and a lot of exploding buildings and planes and even more swearing. What's not to like?

(From DJ Doena's movie watchings 2010 on January 25th, 2010)

The Kindred, a review by Jimmy

Title: The Kindred (1987)

Genre: Horror
Director: Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter
Rating: NR
Length: 1h32
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: None

Stars:
David Allen Brooks   
Rod Steiger
Amanda Pays
Talia Balsam
Kim Hunter

Plot:
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.

If you like movies like species or Forbidden World you'll be on pleasure cruise with that film, not that it's a copy of those two but it use more or less the same basic idea of a dangerous creature created by science. The action take a little bit to start (after quite a promising beginning) but when it does it does. Scary atmosphere, good creature effects (no CGI here this is all mechanical effects) and a very fugly creature designed by Michael John McCracken (surprisingly his career was short). The story is interesting and give us some surprises.

But I sure play the "where I've seen that guy before" while watching... since I didn't want to stop the film. At the end I was able to check DVDP and learned that it was Peter Frechette who is of course one of the T-Birds member in Grease 2 (the one who sing Do It For Our Country).

I would be happy to recommand it, but the film is currently unavailable on DVD due to a legal dispute about who own the movie rights. So untill the settlement of that legal dispute the only way to see it is on VHS wich mean full frame and with a gloomy and blurry visual.

Rating :

(From Jimmy's - 2013 Ooctober Horror Marathon on October 11th, 2013)

Tom's Glee Marathon, a review by Tom

Glee
Season 1.07 Throwdown
Writer: Ryan Murphy (Created By), Brad Falchuk (Created By), Ian Brennan (Created By), Brad Falchuk (Writer)
Director: Ryan Murphy
Cast: Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray), Chris Colfer (Kurt Hummel), Jessalyn Gilsig (Terri Schuester), Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester), Jayma Mays (Emma Pillsbury), Kevin McHale (Arty Abrams), Lea Michele (Rachel Berry), Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson), Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester), Amber Riley (Mercedes Jones), Mark Salling (Noah "Puck" Puckerman), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina Cohen-Chang), Iqbal Theba (Principal Figgins), Jennifer Aspen (Kendra Giardi), Amy Hill (Dr. Chin), Naya Rivera (Santana Lopez), Heather Morris (Brittany Pierce), Harry Shum, Jr. (Mike Chang), Dijon Talton (Matt Rutherford), Kenneth Choi (Dr. Wu), Josh Sussman (Jacob Ben Israel), Ethan Freedman (Giardi Triplet #1), Aidan Freedman (Giardi Triplet #2), Ben Freedman (Giardi Triplet #3), Jennifer Jean Snyder (Reporter)

Finncompetent:
Finn wants to name his baby "Drizzle".
This episode acknowledges the first time that Finn has two left feet.

Brittana:
They hug in the background when they have to go to their separate group.

Favorite moments:
I really like the scene where Rachel confronts Quinn.

Notable music:
I really like the scene, where the actors are goofing off singing a song. The only time we can see them singing without it being a studio recording:

Also otherwise this episode has some good songs. I like best the Avril Lavigne cover of "Keep Holding On".

Rating:

(From Tom's Glee Marathon on August 27th, 2012)